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Spanish oil company Repsol is in “the exploration stage” of oil drilling off of Cuba’s northern coast, prompting a controversy in south Florida over fears of a potential spill.
Tuesday, January 19
Hope dawned with the new day Wednesday as a red, white and blue capsule lifted miners from the dark bowels of the earth into the light.
Hurricane Richard made landfall just south of Belize City Sunday night, said CNN Meteorologist Jacqui Jeras.
The confirmation of five cholera cases in Haiti’s capital is a “very worrying development,” a U.N. spokeswoman told CNN.
Like cholera itself, Haiti’s protests against the United Nations spread Thursday to the capital, Port-au-Prince, as angry people took to the streets demanding the global body get out of their country.
His return heralded by a siren’s blare and the cries of a happy nation, the first of 33 Chilean miners emerged into a cool desert night early Wednesday after being trapped underground for 69 harrowing days.
The death toll from devastating flooding in Brazil continued to rise Sunday, surpassing 600, the state-run Agencia Brasil news agency reported.
Tests of the hole through which rescuers hope to hoist 33 miners trapped nearly half a mile below the surface of the Earth have proved “very promising, very positive,” Chile’s mining minister said Monday, adding that the rescue is expected to begin Wednesday, and possibly earlier.
A top leader of a leftist guerrilla group in Colombia may have been killed during a bombing of a rebel camp, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday.
At least 30 armed men invaded a drug-treatment center in northern Mexico late Thursday night and killed 19 patients and wounded four others, the state-run Notimex news agency reported Friday.
A third migrant survived a massacre that left 72 dead in a Mexican border state, and could play a key role in authorities’ investigation of the crime, El Salvador’s president said.
Six jailed Cuban dissidents will be moved to prisons closer to their homes in “the coming hours,” the island’s Roman Catholic Church said Thursday.
For most of his 70 years, Hesiquio Trevizo has been a man of good will, preaching the word of God. These days, the Roman Catholic priest is a self-described capitan de la guerra — a war veteran.
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